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In an interview that Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin gave to the daily “Corse-Matin”, the government opened the door to the island’s autonomy, evoking an “unprecedented discussion on the institutional question” while the local elected officials taxed Macron’s five-year term with immobility on this issue. Alexandre Peyrout, journalist at franceinfo, takes stock.
This is an important step regarding the eventual autonomy of Corsica. In a daily interview Corse-Morning Tuesday, March 15, Gérald Darmanin declares that “the government is ready to go as far as autonomy” from the island. “It’s a first. Never had any government gone so far“, explains journalist Alexandre Peyrout. Before qualifying: “Gérald Darmanin says ‘The question is to know what this autonomy is. We need to discuss it“.
“There can be no dialogue under the pressure of farm bombs“, continues the Minister of the Interior in the interview. And this announcement comes after a five-year period of misunderstandings between Emmanuel Macron and the Corsicans. “In 2017, Emmanuel Macron seemed rather open to certain Corsican claims“, recalls the journalist on set, citing as such “the revision of the Constitution to include the Corsican entity” or the question of the transfers of the assassins of the prefect Erignac to the prison of Borgo (Corsica). Five years later, it is clear that nothing has been done.
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